Terrible Result of the Higher Education of Women! women and fireplace

and fireplace

Holidaymakers enjoy the August Bank Holiday in Brighton

showing figures and a carriage

English League Division One derby match at Maine Road

28th August 1952

Terrible Result of the Higher Education of Women! women and fireplace'Terrible Result of the Higher Education of Women!', 1874. The beautiful young women go into dinner on the arms of the elderly professors, whilst the young men who would normally be squiring the girls in the usual prelude to courtship languish, redundant, against the wall. Punch often entertained its readers with its depictions of the lives of women. Fashion, sport and education were usually near the top of the list and this cartoon depicts education